facilityfa·cil·i·ty /fəˈsɪləti/ noun (plural facilities)1facilities [plural]PROPERTY special buildings or equipment that have been provided for a particular use, such as sports activities, shopping or travellingThe hotel’s leisure facilities include a large indoor pool, sauna and sun terrace.
modern health-care facilities
2[countableC]MANUFACTURING a place or large building that is used to make or provide a particular product or serviceSYN PLANTTorness Harbour has the best permanent docking facility on Scotland’s south-east coast.
3[countableC]BANKINGFINANCE an arrangement made by a bank for its customers which lets them use the services the bank offers. These services would include, for example, borrowing or investing moneyMIT has put in place a £20 millionloan facility for investment in European bonds.
The company has now secured new credit facilities to finance the purchase of the oilfield.
→ credit facility → note issuance facility4[countableC]COMPUTING a special feature of a piece of equipment that allows it to do certain useful things, in addition to the things the equipment normally doesIBM have urged businesses to increase their back-up facilities (=systems that can be used if the main one stops working).